There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
ALAN GREENSPANEnhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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